MCL Create goes under in blow to events industry

Event production company MCL Create has gone into administration, in the second major blow to the UK events industry in the space of a week. Staff were informed on Friday, just days after the liquidation of live events company Blitz was announced. The difficulties which took their toll on the two companies come as campaigners are warning that hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk from the Covid-19-related shutdown of the live events industry.

MCL Create had a stellar client list ranging from Epson, Ricoh and Siemens through Aston Villa and Manchester City football clubs, Deloitte, KPMG and PWC in the accountancy and consultancy sector, JTI and Mondelez in FMCG, unions such as the NFU and NASUWT, and utilities such as Royal Mail and Scottish Water. The company worked from five locations in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

In 2017, MCL was the subject of a management buyout from the NEP Group which itself had acquired MCL Create’s previous parent company Avesco earlier in the year.